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- From: Paul Prescod <papresco@technologist.com>
- To: xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
- Date: Thu, 18 Dec 1997 12:55:43 -0500
David Megginson wrote:
>
> <foo>...</foo>
> The attribute "bar" has the value "hack", and is not specified
> (i.e., it is a defaulted value).
>
> <foo bar="hack">...</foo>
> The attribute "bar" has the value "hack", and is specified.
I don't think nsgmls (for example) makes this distinction and I don't
remember ever wishing it did. When do you need to know this?
As an author, I certainly don't think that my software is going to work
differently if I use the default or specify it. I would be quite
disconcerted if it did.
Paul Prescod
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